1. Similarities of Roe and Griswold cases: both verdicts supported the right to privacy
2. Incorporation: In Griswold, the Supreme Court repealed a Connecticut law that prohibited the use of contraceptives. In Roe, state restrictions on abortions were outlawed.
3. Rights mentioned in the Bill of Rights: 5th amendment - due process clause
4. Which type of obscenity is banned according to the Supreme Court?? child pornography
5. Schenck v. U.S. - upheld Espionage Act of 1917, denied the defendant the right to free speech against the draft during WWI.
Established the "clear and present danger" rule. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. ruled in this case
6. NY Times v. Sullivan - allowed free reporting of the civil rights movements in the southern U.S. The actual malice standard was established, requiring that the plaintiff in a defamation or libel case prove that the publisher of the statement in question knew that the statement was false or acted in reckless disregard of its truth or falsity.
1. Similarities of Roe and Griswold cases: both verdicts supported the right to privacy
2. Incorporation: In Griswold, the Supreme Court repealed a Connecticut law that prohibited the use of contraceptives. In Roe, state restrictions on abortions were outlawed.
3. Rights mentioned in the Bill of Rights: 5th amendment - due process clause
4. Which type of obscenity is banned according to the Supreme Court?? child pornography
5. Schenck v. U.S. - upheld Espionage Act of 1917, denied the defendant the right to free speech against the draft during WWI.
Established the "clear and present danger" rule. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. ruled in this case
6. NY Times v. Sullivan - allowed free reporting of the civil rights movements in the southern U.S. The actual malice standard was established, requiring that the plaintiff in a defamation or libel case prove that the publisher of the statement in question knew that the statement was false or acted in reckless disregard of its truth or falsity.